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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Feminist Literary Amusement
Message-ID: <759@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 17:37:16 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 17:37:16 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <2210CJC@psuvm> CJC@psuvm.BITNET writes:
>     
>   I'll grant that some stories which are sometimes sold as "murder
>mysteries" do contain a great lot of violence, but these are really
>some other genre - like detective stories - and no real Christie-loving
>mystery fan would accept them as the real thing. Certainly the essential
>elements of a mystery center on the puzzle solving, not the crime.
>     
	I agree completely with your conclusion! However, I do not
think that Agatha Chrisite is the best example. She *cheats* and gives
her detectives clues that she does *not* give to the readers. I think
a better example is Dorothy Sayers since she always includes *all* the
clues, plus a lot of random, meaningless stuff(just like in real
life). I was *really* embaressed when I got to the end of "Have His
Carcass" and found out the solution to the mystery, with my background
I should have seen it easily. And just to be sure I went back through
the book and confirmed that all the clues were in fact there! They
were.

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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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